The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office will join law enforcement agencies nationwide today through Monday in the U Drive. U Text. U Pay. campaign.  The annual event is part of the U-S Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s high-visibility enforcement effort to remind drivers about the dangers and consequences of distracted driving.  According to NHTSA, between 2012 and 2019, little more than 26-thousand people died in crashes involving a distracted driver. While fatalities from motor vehicle crashes decreased slightly from 2018, distraction-related fatalities increased by 10 percent.